Space Camp

Every kid growing up in the 1980's wanted to spend his or her summers at NASA's Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. Space and astronauts were super cool in the 80's and the closer you could get to the space program the better. Space Camp played on the fantasies of 80's kids who dreamed of getting to go to this illustrious summer camp and the improbably idea of somehow getting stuck on a shuttle that actually launches into space.

The premise is simple: little kid gets to go to Space Camp because his aunt is an astronaut, kid befriends robot, robots wants to let kid go to space because they are "friends forever", robot fixes it so kid and friends can be inside space shuttle during a routine engine test, robot fixes it so there is a problem and NASA has to launch the shuttle into space. Yup, it is silly. But wouldn't it have been cool if...

Space Camp is a lot of fun and was a total classic in its time. Watching it today it really shows its age. The effects are aweful. But the cast was pretty good with some really strong 80's personalities. The movies has a lot of corny stuff going on but it manages to be a fun movie. Definitely worth checking out.